The sad story of Frank Dryman, alias Victor Houston, alias Frank Valentine

[uberreiniger]

Murderer tracked down by victim's grandson after hiding in the open for 40 years.

What's sad about this story is that despite everything the murderer has done to atone (in his mind,) for the crimes, I don't think he's really changed. Criminals who display the sheer level of dissociation that this man displays really scare me. Having constructed an entirely separate persona on which to blame his actions, he hasn't really repented.

I grew up in the area where the BTK murders happened and when he was arrested he tried the same thing, saying that he wasn't responsible for the murders, that the "demon" inside him was. Of course BTK makes this one-off rage killer look like Barney the dinosaur, but the psychological fracture is the same.

"I killed them... but it wasn't me!"
-Walter Sullivan, Silent Hill 2

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[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

If anything I'd say he was a text book case of a dissociative break.

I'm really into true crime stuff too. One of my hobbies.